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Yinchuan Sustainable Farm's organic rice growers cultivate agricultural talent through organic life camps
Organic rice growers take on the responsibility of nurturing agricultural talent! Yinchuan Sustainable Farm launches a land restoration revolution through organic life camps. Arriving in Fuli Township, Hualien, Taiwan, China, one is greeted by rice paddies everywhere, and this is Fuli rice, one of the "Three Treasures of Fuli" alongside shiitake mushrooms grown on logs and daylilies. Hualien has the largest organic cultivation area in all of Taiwan, about 2,800-plus hectares, and Yinchuan Sustainable Farm is the largest organic rice grower in all of Taiwan, cultivating 680 hectares of organic rice a year, but for Yinchuan, the connection to this land in Hualien is not merely planting rice in the fields, but taking root locally through "organic life camps."
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Over a thousand rejects of flowers destroyed; florist says they can still hold on, but the ones suffering are the flower farmers
During the pandemic prevention period, fresh flowers cannot wait for the outbreak to ease. Jing Zhiming, the second-generation head of Yongjin Flowers, said over 100,000 yuan worth of flowers were thrown away in a month, but he feels even more for the flower farmers who lost everything. Photo by Chen Zhiyuan. Image source: Apple Daily News "This year is the year the most flowers have been thrown away
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Heirloom seeds passed down through generations, yet over 95% have already disappeared from farmland
More than ten thousand years ago, humans realized they could keep part of the harvested seeds to replant the following year. "Xin Yu": The common people ate meat and drank blood, and clothed themselves in hides and fur; as for Shennong, he thought that crawling insects and running beasts were difficult to raise the people on, so he sought things that could be eaten, tasted the fruits of the hundred plants, and examined sour, bitter, and
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Succulent Watering Guide: How Often to Water and Whether to Soak Them Through
In recent years many people keep a pot of succulents such as cacti on their desk to relieve stress, but do you know how to water succulents correctly? Succulents do need water, but when watering you should use a sprayer to mist the surface of the growing medium. If too many water droplets are left on the leaves or the body of the plant
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The case of how Zespri Kiwifruit became a billion-dollar brand through stable production
To build a fruit brand, large-scale production with stable quality is an essential prerequisite. Next, we attempt to use the case of the New Zealand kiwifruit producer Zespri to explain how technological upgrading and organizational change reduce the impact of the natural environment
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How does the central government guide the transformation of agricultural development mode through fiscal policy?
Currently, China's agricultural development is facing tremendous changes and challenges. The "ceiling" capping effect on agricultural product prices is beginning to emerge, the squeeze from the rising "floor" of costs is becoming increasingly obvious, the "yellow line" of agricultural production and price subsidies is being approached, and the "red light" of resources and environment is beginning to flash. We have reached the stage where we must accelerate the transformation of agricultural development mode.
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How to Achieve Coordinated Development Through Urban-Rural Integration
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Party made coordination one of the five major development concepts, proposing to focus on promoting coordinated urban-rural and regional development, promoting coordinated economic and social development, and promoting the synchronous development of new industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization. Facing the current urban
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How to Break Through the Institutional Obstacles to Rural Development
The past decade has been the period in which our country's agriculture developed fastest, the rural landscape changed the most, and farmers gained the most tangible benefits; it has also been the "golden decade" for our country's rural economic and social development. However, with the in-depth advancement of industrialization, urbanization, marketization, informatization and globalization,
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Hidden concerns behind ten consecutive bumper summer grain harvests: increasing yields through fertilizer worsens arable land quality
Hidden concerns behind ten consecutive bumper summer grain harvests. The National Bureau of Statistics website announced on July 12 that in 2013, the national total summer grain output reached 131.89 million tons, an increase of 1.96 million tons over 2012, up 1.5%; of which winter wheat output was 115.67 million tons, an increase of 1.48 million tons over the previous year, up 1.3%. 201
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New-type agricultural operating entities face financing difficulties; the National Development and Reform Commission strives to break through
China Economic Net, Beijing, August 1 (Reporter Lin Huocan) A relevant official of the National Development and Reform Commission said today that China will increase guidance and support for new-type agricultural operating entities, improve the policy-based agricultural insurance system, and strive to resolve the financing difficulties of new-type agricultural
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